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November 20, 2013: AOL Tries to Shut Down WinAmp


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<img width="600" height="600" data-tf-not-load src="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Winamp-logo1.png" class="attachment-full size-full wp-post-image" alt="WinAmp" decoding="async" srcset="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Winamp-logo1.png 600w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Winamp-logo1-150x150.png 150w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Winamp-logo1-300x300.png 300w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Winamp-logo1-65x65.png 65w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" />

<img decoding="async" width="300" height="300" data-tf-not-load src="http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2014/11/Winamp-logo1-300x300.png" alt="WinAmp" class="wp-image-23926" srcset="https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Winamp-logo1-300x300.png 300w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Winamp-logo1-150x150.png 150w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Winamp-logo1-160x160.png 160w, https://dayintechhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Winamp-logo1.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />WinAmp

2013 – AOL shocked a lot of geeks when they announced WinAmp.com would be shutting down and the software would be no longer available come December 20th.  The next day rumors surfaced that Microsoft was planning to buy it – which didn’t go further than the inital report. The service did not shut down though.

On January 14th, 2014 it was announced a Belgian radio website called “Radionomy” had purchased the Nullsoft brand, including WinAmp and Shoutcast.

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On this day, the word “hacking” was used in an issue of “the tech”, which is a massachusetts institute of technology newspaper.

Here is a snippet of the article:

Many telephone services have been curtailed because of so-called hackers, according to Prof. Carlton Tucker, administrator of the Institute phone system…

Basically, hackers were tying up phone lines between Harvard and MIT.

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